Hollywood is like a fast food restaurant: out of every 100 people who go to work, only 2 or 3 continue to collect their payroll after several decades. And of course, with so much rotation and so much novelty, it is very easy to forget that there are people like Robert De Niro who not only continue to stand in front of the camera from time to time, but also deserve to be dedicated to headlines as well as to any young promise with millions. followers on social networks.

Of course, it is likely that the veteran actor, one of the least sympathetic to the press when it comes to promoting, was not amused that once he was talked about in the media around the world it was to collect a bad news: his divorce from Grace Hightower, which various media advanced last week without any of those involved confirming it. Until now.

In a statement sent through his representative, the actor has just broken his silence for the first time to explain the reasons for this separation, which puts an end to a turbulent relationship that dates back to 1987, the year in which that they both met while Grace was the waitress in charge of serving him food in a London restaurant. Although it would not be until ten years later, in 1997, when they finally got married.

“Grace and I have two beautiful children together and now we are entering a period of transition in our relationship that is as complicated as it is constructive”, says the protagonist of films like Raging Bull or Taxi Driver, who never uses the word 'divorce'.

“I want to make it clear that Grace is a fantastic mother and so I want to ask for privacy and respect for us as we find a way to fit what our role as parents is going to be from this moment on,” concludes De Niro, making it clear that The most important thing for him right now is the stability of his children Elliot, born in 1998, and Helen, born by surrogacy in 2011.

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